Short Data: A Comment....The data posted is essentially meaningless at this point as it covers far too much of a trading period to be meaningful.
Shorts would have been active (although some may have covered in the whipsaw action on Monday the 19th in the AM) all the way through the week before Christmas and early the following week.
If the data could be isolated for a daily period, it would be most telling last Thursday and Friday when the price moved from $1.79 on Thursday to an intraday high of around $2.30 with the strong close on Friday. That was a big move.
You can bet a lot of money that there were a significant number of shorts that were covered in those two days.